If these benchmarks hold or rise once the drivers mature, then it could indeed be the best GPU you can buy for content creation (in the sub 1000 dollar range).

That is assuming AMD can back this up with good drivers, bad software can be the breaking point for even the best hardware.

Still, that is not preventing gamers on sites like wccftech from becoming broken records, they are again trotting out their forecasts of AMD going bankrupt or at least going into major financial pain (just like last year and the year before). The fact that AdoredTV spun the hype machine into overdrive didn’t help either (but that is not AMD’s doing).

does nvidia talked about the rumored 11xx series ? because that series will compete with the radeon 7, the rtx line i see it mostly for real time ray tracing & for ray tracing acceleration and for ai not for content creators that use adobe/davinci & other gpu accelerated stuff that doesn’t need raytracing

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made some unusual harsh remark on yesterday's announced Radeon VII from AMD. In an interview at PC World he mentions this: &ldquo;The performance is lousy and there&...

Either he is acting just like his fans in the gaming community, or the Nvidia fans in the community got their tribal behavior from him. It gives a good reason to abandon Nvidia if not for their solid drivers.

The comments also have a very interesting bit, Lisa Su of AMD is actually his niece.

IMHO, a normal person would be honored to finally meet somewhat decent adversary (especially, if opposing is really a close relative). I think he’s taking it personally, showing his muddy waters - hurt ego & shallow pride. Maybe it’s coming his time to leave… to live and let live

I’d agree that it’s a bit unbecoming for a CEO to trash-talk like that, but what he says is 100% true. This is a 7nm chip (much better process) with 16GB of expensive HBM (more memory bandwidth), 30% higher FLOPS, requiring almost 50% more power and still it barely beats the 2080, at the same suggested retail price, months after its launch. Imagine what NVIDIA could do with 7nm, almost 300W TDP and 1GB/s HBM.

This product just doesn’t make any sense for gamers who can’t make use of that much memory. It makes more sense for content creators, but that’s not such a big market and then the lack of CUDA support makes it less attractive.

It depends on whether the supposed technologies that were supposed to supercharge the original Vega cards actually get their debut when the driver updates start coming out. It also depends on whether or not AMD’s “fine wine” approach actually works this time (which didn’t do much for the original Vegas).

At the least, AMD is confirming their promise to gamers that they will now be releasing new cards on a more regular basis (ie. not forcing people to wait until they get the Navi units released).

Well, TSMC said 7nm would be either 25% more perf. for the same TDP or 50% less energy for the same perf. Just like for the Vega64, they balanced toward performance. The Vega 64 with 5% less frequency can work with 0.9mV and be as efficient as the 1080Ti (MRays/Watt in Cycles, at least, without my optimizations…).
So I guess the RadeonVII with the right undervolting can become an efficiency king if TSMC tells true about it’s process. And the 16GB are great for rendering.
And if the gamers and miners don’t like it, the price will be better for us
A lot of ifs, but let’s see…

If you look a little closer at the footnotes of the following AMD's press conference at CES you will notice that AMD has listed 26 Benchmark results of the Radeon VII published. All compared relative...

The majority of the benches fall between 20 percent and 35 percent, but there’s a surprising 68 percent FPS jump for Fallout76. I’m not sure what’s in Bethesda’s code that allows that, but it could give a hint that these numbers could get better.

Very eager to get my hands on one (at least one) of them. Just like Vega 56/64, the TDP peeks are never reached in Rendering. So for Blender this will be awesome.

Agreed that for gaming, well they had to do something. NAVI simply wasn’t ready, so this is a “stop gap” measure.

One site mentioend that there will be “only 5000” units on sale… and that each untill will loose AMD money, which is understandable. But for rendering… the extra 30%, is a nice boost.

Still eager to see though what RTX and its RTX features will bring for Blender.

Lastly, I wonder how Nvidia CEO will respond when they release a the “rumoured” GTX 1180… (no RTX, means I Hope singnificantly lower price…)

Still back to Vega 2, VII, Radeon VII… ahh these names. Wonder if they will switch to the R5 R7 R9 naming scheme from the past just with roman numerals? Radeon V Radeon VII Radeon IX… good old days i guess hehehe.

Still, saving my cash for 1 (or 2) of these, and hope that someone releases water blocks for them

Luxmark Luxball scene is almost only showing the strength of high bandwidth vram, nothing more.
Nowadays gpu’s should at least be compared with Mic or Hotel. The simple luxball scene is worthless for renderpower judgement.

That’s the whole issue. In terms of technology, AMD has thrown everything (7nm, HBM) at this product. It’ll be very hard to make it cheaper. NVIDIA on the other hand is using an older process and cheaper memory on the 2080. They could lower prices much more easily, but the way it seems now, they don’t have to.

We review the new AMD Radeon VII. A product that has been talked about for quite a while. The basis of this high-end graphics card is VEGA64. However with a die-shrink towards a 7nm fabricated packa... Overclocking The Graphics Card

Pushing the card a bit will mean a 6 percent increase (on average) in graphics performance, which puts it just barely behind the 1080 Ti and the Titan X Pascal version (while leaving a nice gap between it and the 1080).

If AMD manages to achieve some nice fine-wine driver updates with this model, this card could eventually pull ahead of the entire Nvidia Pascal lineup. The downside though is that the unit will remain power-hungry, but that does not stop gamers from getting products like Intel 18’s core monster of a chip.